With 2016’s Split Milk LP and Do Nothing EP - on the now folded Fortuna Pop! and the furtive Feral Child labels respectively - veteran musical scholar and polymath Pete Astor reconnected somewhat unexpectedly with the guitar-driven singer-songwriter persona of his Creation Records-affiliated years. Seemingly still in no rush to return to the … [Read more...]

After very nearly four decades of existence, you could be forgiven for wondering exactly what it is that The Monochrome Set have got to say to us today. In the years since their first appearance in 1978, the North London band - based mostly around guitarists and songwriters Lester Square and Bid - has remained steadfastly out of the musical … [Read more...]